Chapter 17
THE GRANGERFORDS MEET HUCK – Nighttime, Grangerford’s House
Huck meets the Grangerfords.
MR. GRANGERFORD:
Who are you, boy? What’chu doin’ here? HUCK:Why, my name be George Jackson sir! And I just be passing through. MR GRANGERFORD:How’d you end up here, then? HUCK:I done fall off my steamboat. MR GANGERFORD:Look here, just tell the truth now and no harm be done to ya. Is anybody with ya? HUCK:I done be tellin’ the truth sir, when I say I be here alone. (Grangerford pulls out gun and point at Huck.) MR GRANGERFORD:Now, George Jackson, you know the Sepherdsons? HUCK:No sir, that name don’t sound familiar to me… MR GRANGERFORD:Well, come in slowly and peak your head through the door until I can see if I trust ya. (Huck took slow steps towards the door and peaks his head in to be examined.) MR GRANGERFORD:Well, I done reckon it’s alright to come in then. HUCK:Why, who be the Sepherdsons?
MR GRANGERFORD:We don't talk about them Devils in our house, son. Now go get washed up we'll let ya stay the night.
(Huck looks around the house and notices all of the slaves and nice belongings.)
HUCK:Why, you done be the richest people i've ever met. You must have over 100 slaves! MR GRANGERFORD:Yeah, yeah, well come on in boy and let my son Buck get you some nice dry clothes to wear. (Enter Buck) BUCK:I'm Buck! Say, do you like riddles? HUCK:Uh-- I dont think I never heard no riddle... BUCK:Oh.. well that's alright! I'm sure we'll still be good friends anyways. Come on, let me show ya around! We can go out in the woods!
Chapter 18 Script
HUCK IN THE WOODS WITH BUCK, SEE A SHEPARDSON GO BY, AND DUCK IN THE WOODS, GUN SHOT SOUNDS
Huck: Why do you want to kill dat man Buck?
Buck: Oh ain’t no reason, we just done hate that family so we been trying to off each other since day one, better known as… THE FEUD Huck: What in tar nation is “The Feud!?” Buck: Well Huck you see, getting’ mad at someone don’t take too long but a feud can last forever. I reckon it’s been done going on about 30 years or something by now. Some guys had a law suit and the dang people who did lost shot the guy who did one, like anyone would naturally do…. Huck: Well whose fault was it? Grangerford or Sheaperdson? What they do?? Buck : Why it was so long ago nobody knows, but we done been kilin’ each other ever since. In fact just this year some sheapardson done shot and kill my fourteen year old cousin Bud. Ran off like he ain’t done nothing, so we done laid him out later that week…like any normal people would do
NEXT SUNDAY, HUCK IS GOING DOWN THE RIVER WITH A SLAVE Huck: What you following me for?? Jack: Master I know a place where we can see a whole stack of water moccosins Huck: OK
HUCK FOLLOWS SLAVE AND PRETTY SOON JIM APPEARS Huck: OH JIM IT’S YOU, COME HERE YA BIG OAF! Why didn’t you done have Jack fetch me sooner? How’d ya get here? Jim: I done get her on a raft, she wasn’t smashed at all. I was looking for it and some Black folk had found it and they was mighty good to me and gave me it back Huck: Good thing old Jack say he want to show me some water moccasins so we don’t gotta lie to no body
THE NEXT DAY
Huck: BUCK!? HELLO!? ANYONE!? Jack where is everyone? Jack: Oh you ain’t hear? Miss Sophia run off with a Sheapardson to elope! Dey all grabbed the guns and headed up river, that's big trouble there master George
AT THE BATTLE Voices: Kill them Kill them! BANG BANG BANG BANG
LATER THAT NIGHT
Jim: Oh there you is Huck, Jack said he thought you’d been killed! Huck: Good, they’ll all think I died and floated down the river, lets get outta here! These people are nuts Get on raft Huck: Ain’t no home like the raft Jim
THE GRANGERFORDS MEET HUCK – Nighttime, Grangerford’s House
Huck meets the Grangerfords.
MR. GRANGERFORD:
Who are you, boy? What’chu doin’ here?
HUCK:Why, my name be George Jackson sir! And I just be passing through.
MR GRANGERFORD:How’d you end up here, then?
HUCK:I done fall off my steamboat.
MR GANGERFORD:Look here, just tell the truth now and no harm be done to ya. Is anybody with ya?
HUCK:I done be tellin’ the truth sir, when I say I be here alone.
(Grangerford pulls out gun and point at Huck.)
MR GRANGERFORD:Now, George Jackson, you know the Sepherdsons?
HUCK:No sir, that name don’t sound familiar to me…
MR GRANGERFORD:Well, come in slowly and peak your head through the door until I can see if I trust ya.
(Huck took slow steps towards the door and peaks his head in to be examined.)
MR GRANGERFORD:Well, I done reckon it’s alright to come in then.
HUCK:Why, who be the Sepherdsons?
MR GRANGERFORD:We don't talk about them Devils in our house, son. Now go get washed up we'll let ya stay the night.
(Huck looks around the house and notices all of the slaves and nice belongings.)
HUCK:Why, you done be the richest people i've ever met. You must have over 100 slaves!
MR GRANGERFORD:Yeah, yeah, well come on in boy and let my son Buck get you some nice dry clothes to wear.
(Enter Buck)
BUCK:I'm Buck! Say, do you like riddles?
HUCK:Uh-- I dont think I never heard no riddle...
BUCK:Oh.. well that's alright! I'm sure we'll still be good friends anyways. Come on, let me show ya around! We can go out in the woods!
Chapter 18 Script
HUCK IN THE WOODS WITH BUCK, SEE A SHEPARDSON GO BY, AND DUCK IN THE WOODS, GUN SHOT SOUNDS
Huck: Why do you want to kill dat man Buck?
Buck: Oh ain’t no reason, we just done hate that family so we been trying to off each other since day one, better known as… THE FEUD
Huck: What in tar nation is “The Feud!?”
Buck: Well Huck you see, getting’ mad at someone don’t take too long but a feud can last forever. I reckon it’s been done going on about 30 years or something by now. Some guys had a law suit and the dang people who did lost shot the guy who did one, like anyone would naturally do….
Huck: Well whose fault was it? Grangerford or Sheaperdson? What they do??
Buck : Why it was so long ago nobody knows, but we done been kilin’ each other ever since. In fact just this year some sheapardson done shot and kill my fourteen year old cousin Bud. Ran off like he ain’t done nothing, so we done laid him out later that week…like any normal people would do
NEXT SUNDAY, HUCK IS GOING DOWN THE RIVER WITH A SLAVE
Huck: What you following me for??
Jack: Master I know a place where we can see a whole stack of water moccosins
Huck: OK
HUCK FOLLOWS SLAVE AND PRETTY SOON JIM APPEARS
Huck: OH JIM IT’S YOU, COME HERE YA BIG OAF! Why didn’t you done have Jack fetch me sooner? How’d ya get here?
Jim: I done get her on a raft, she wasn’t smashed at all. I was looking for it and some Black folk had found it and they was mighty good to me and gave me it back
Huck: Good thing old Jack say he want to show me some water moccasins so we don’t gotta lie to no body
THE NEXT DAY
Huck: BUCK!? HELLO!? ANYONE!? Jack where is everyone?
Jack: Oh you ain’t hear? Miss Sophia run off with a Sheapardson to elope! Dey all grabbed the guns and headed up river, that's big trouble there master George
AT THE BATTLE
Voices: Kill them Kill them!
BANG BANG BANG BANG
LATER THAT NIGHT
Jim: Oh there you is Huck, Jack said he thought you’d been killed!
Huck: Good, they’ll all think I died and floated down the river, lets get outta here! These people are nuts
Get on raft
Huck: Ain’t no home like the raft Jim